Members of the Ironworkers are literally building the framework for a cleaner energy future in Minnesota at the St. John’s Solar Farm near Collegeville, Minnesota.

After President Obama visited the Gulf Coast on May 28, BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster said the disaster should sound as a clarion call to Congress that it is time to embrace the clean energy economy.

The New Jersey Work Environment Council, the state’s labor-environmental partnership, explains the new policy from EPA to allow workers and their representatives to participate in inspections conducted under the Clean Air Act.

The BlueGreen Alliance lauded President Barack Obama’s announcement that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation to develop a national emissions standard for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

Hundreds of local unions and members around the country have signed a resolution urging action on comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation.

The BlueGreen Alliance urged the Senate to move forward to immediately strengthen and pass the American Power Act.

BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster sent this letter to members of Congress urging them to pass the HOME STAR Energy Retrofit Act of 2010.

Hundreds of people went to Capitol Hill today to lobby members of Congress for comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation, chemicals reform and clean transportation as part of Green Jobs Advocacy Day.

This report shows that investments in America’s freight rail system would create thousands of green jobs, improve the country’s infrastructure, reduce dependence on foreign oil and lower carbon emissions.

Report outlines the economic, environmental and social costs of illegal logging in Indonesia, including the impact on U.S. jobs and economy and increased carbon emissions from deforestation.

After the White House announced a $452 million retrofit ramp up plan, BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster said investments in energy efficiency create more opportunities for high-road construction jobs.

On Earth Day, seven members of the United Steelworkers Union – each one representing a part of the supply chain involved in producing clean energy technologies in the United States – visited with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.